Oct 26
Full list of Rock Band’s licensed songs, 45 songs plus 13 unlockable
IGN has the full list of every song initially available in Rock Band, although there are some as yet unrevealed tracks that can be unlocked and there will be even more through downloadable content. However, while we may not know those tracks, here is the complete licensed track list revealed so far, organized by year:
1960s
- Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”
1970s
- Aerosmith “Train Kept a Rollin’”*
- The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
- Boston “Foreplay/Long Time”
- Mountain “Mississippi Queen” (cover)
- The Police “Next to You”
- David Bowie “Suffragette City”
- Black Sabbath “Paranoid” (cover)
- Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
- The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop”
- Deep Purple “Highway Star”
- KISS “Detroit Rock City”
- Molly Hatchet “Flirtin’ With Disaster”
- The Outlaws “Green Grass & High Tides” (cover)
- Sweet “Ballroom Blitz” (cover)
1980s
- Rush “Tom Sawyer”*
- Bon Jovi “Wanted Dead or Alive”
- The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
- Faith No More “Epic”
- R.E.M. “Orange Crush”
- Iron Maiden “Run to the Hills” (cover)
1990s
- Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly”
- Metallica “Enter Sandman”
- Nirvana “In Bloom”
- Stone Temple Pilots “Vasoline”
- Weezer “Say It Ain’t So”
- Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”
- Radiohead “Creep”
- Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
- Hole “Celebrity Skin”
- Garbage “I Think I’m Paranoid”
- Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun”
2000s
- The Hives “Main Offender”
- Queens of the Stone Age “Go With the Flow”
- The Strokes “Reptilia”
- Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
- OK Go “Here It Goes Again”
- Nine Inch Nails “The Hand That Feeds”
- Pixies “Wave of Mutilation”
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”
- Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”
- Coheed & Cambria “Welcome Home”
- Fallout Boy “Dead on Arrival”
- The Killers “When You Were Young”
- New Pornographers “Electric Version”
Unlockable Tracks
- Bang Camaro “Pleasure (Pleasure)”
There will also be another 12 unlockable songs, bringing the total songs in the game to 58 - plus downloadable content for those of you wanting to spend even more.
Downloadable Content
- The Who “Who’s Next” (entire album)
- Metallica “One”
- The Grateful Dead (eighteen songs)
It’s looking like a great track list, and while it may not have as many songs as Guitar Hero III each one has to be made to work with more than just guitar and bass, so a lot more work goes in to every track. Rock Band will certainly have some awesome songs, and and you can look forward to it draining your wallet even further when it’s released on November 20th.
[UPDATE]
If you don’t know all the songs or want to listen to them again to refresh your memory on how awesome many of them are, here is a playlist of them (unfortunately some of them can’t be embedded, so if they don’t work just follow the previous link and listen to them there):
[Thanks to the always helpful Guitar Hero III/Rock Band aficionado kagatoASUKA89 for getting all these songs together]
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Fucking shit, I MUST buy Rock Band. The 70s songs are too much to pass up.
Why is there no Cowbell controller for Fear the Reaper!?
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God, this looks so good. Garbage? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Weezer? Excellent.
I bet one of the drum pads will act as a cowbell for Blue Oyster Cult.
I played Say it Ain’t So at E for All (twice) and it was probably the most fun I’ve had with a rhythm game ever.
Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly”
Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”
Holy shit, purchase CONFIRMED.
Pixies “Wave of Mutilation” should be in the 80’s unless they recorded a new version in the last 7 years.
when you tap the microphone, that acts as a cowbell/tamborine for rock band.
I wish NIN had a different song up there, but oh well, it’s radio friendly; I suppose Starfuckers would not have been a possibility.
I want this one pretty good.
Electric Version?!
Fuck yeah!
Wave of Mutilation is not from 2000s. Its an older song from the late 80s.
Wave of mutilation seems to be one of the few good songs on this list. I cant believe they put good songs by the Pixies, Radiohead, and David Bowie next to crappy songs by Bon Jovi and Kiss.
And why the hell did they include “Here it Goes Again”. Can’t they predict that it will soon be forgotten as a one hit wonder. It’s already on commercials and being played to death on the radio. I’m already tired of it.
…. Is anybody else kind of disappointed? I honestly was expecting more (and better) songs. Where the hell is the hendrix, zeppelin, sex pistols, (better) rush, iron maiden, judas priest, and the like? Does anybody remember the Welcome to the Jungle video that was going around awhile back? And where’s the full black album we were promised?
I was a major supporter of RB>GH3, but now I’m not so sure.
Here’s to hoping we get a LOT of downloadable content in the future.
Wave of Mutilation was from the 1990s.
Smoking, drinking some beers, and playing 18 Dead songs is going to be incredible. It’s a Jerry Garcia simulator!!
@ dave
What were you expecting for a Rush song, La Villa Stangiato, Jacob’s ladder, 2112? no way, they gotta put the commercial stuff on there.
I’m impressed. Just simply wow. Yeah, you could gripe about some of the music choices for Rock Band (Bon Jovi, Ok Go, or Radiohead’s “Creep” over “Just”), but most of the selection wows me in a good way. Garbage? Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun?” “Welcome Home” by Coheed and Cambria? I’m liking this game more and more.
Bah, I am disappointed that there’s no Hendrix or Zeppelin on the list. Honestly, I was hoping one of the two blockbuster rhythm games would pick them up… Ugh.
Justin K.: “Wave of Mutilation” came out on Doolittle in ‘89.
Sleepy’s spot on: you can argue taste, but they’ve done a great job pulling good songs from great bands.
I’ll be surprised if they’re ever able to license songs from Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin.
you better believe “WELCOME HOME” will be the hardest guitar part in the whole game. geez that song will be the shit. the drums in the beginng are beastly.
EXIT LIGHT! ENTER NIGHT!!!!
Put some Rise Against into Rock Band!!!! I know that they have Prayer of the Refugee for Guitar Hero 3 but they have so many songs that would be perfect for Rock Band and Guitar Hero. I want more!!!!
you guys will prolly hate my coment, but i say enough with the bull shit 70’s/80’s music, where is system of a down toxicity, or tool schism, or linkin park a place for my head, all would especially go great with rockband. if i hear kiss in another game soundtrack ima fuckin loose it. i get it already there legends of rock or w/e but im so sick of hearing that shit. next guitar hero they make, or rock band part II or w/e should only include music from this millennium, or better yet have a way to put your own songs in the game, and make your own cords
dude yes they should get some stephen lynch for the guitar and Tenacious D cuz they kick fucking shit
yea ill admit that i want to buy this but im disapointed with the songs, the only bands i actually like are metallica and iron maiden but the games fun so i guess itll still be fun hah
Rock Band needs some System of a Down songs on it that would be bad ass
I want rock band so much!!! But i wish you would add these songs to your list of songs:
Songs Artists
-into the night santana ft. chad kroeger
-riot three days grace
-through the fire and the flames dragonforce
-animals nickelback
-dude looks like a lady Aerosmith
-Pain three days grace
I hope you add these songs!!!Thanx
I want rock band so much!!! But i wish you would add these songs to your list of songs:
Songs:
-into the night- santana ft. chad kroeger
-riot- three days grace
-through the fire and the flames- dragonforce
-animals- nickelback
-dude looks like a lady- Aerosmith
-Pain- three days grace
I hope you add these songs!!!Thanx
This so rocks exept for one song, The Outlaws song SUCKS! You have to play it in rock tour mode to get to better songs. I wish there was a pass this! Other than that this game rocks!
I would give it higher than a 8 out of 10 if they removed The Outlaws.
For what a game like this has accomplished … a game that takes Air Guitar, Table-Top Drumming, and Shower Singing … to be whined about because it doesn’t have LedZep or Hendrix or some other “classic rock radio” staples, well, damn, that’s just pathetic.
This is one of the best games on the market, and when you consider the DLC ability to … yes, that’s right … ADD SONGS IN THE FUTURE WITHOUT HAVING TO BUY A NEW GAME (*cough*GH*cough*) … then this is an investment well worth the replay value AND highly probable future content.
Get over yourselves … for reals
this is really a great game, its fun and is kind of addicting pluse most of the songs rock. though they really need something to add your your own songs and make the music that would be cool. ‘hint hint’
there needs to be more songs. you end up playing the same damn 6 songs for the whole career mode and i’m dreading the day it makes me do fallout boy. GET MORE CHILI PEPPERS
The Microphone can be used as a cowbell/tamborine
i thin you should have some grindcore and screamo songs on because they have some of the craziest drums and guitar parts and you should put a couple rap songs liek crank that with travis barker party like a rockstar the song rockstar and other ones that can be converted to the game and put the songs into the market place
rock band fucking rules it’s the best game ever
Rock band for ps2?I want to tell me how to download songs.PLZ ANSWER
THIS WEB SITE FUCKING SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rockband is very good but I don`t like all the song I gust wish I could put songs on there.ROCKON!!!!
F N GAY MAN! MY DOG TOTALLY ATE MY MICROPHONE WIRE! STUPID ANIMALS THESE DAYS DESERVE TO GO TO HELL!
@Joe Dubazar
Don’t worry, you’ll get it back eventually…but it probably won’t work anymore and I doubt you’ll want to touch it after what it’ll have been through.
to bad no tool or linkon park y wont tool just let rock band use there songs
Do you really think Tool is gonna give up anything? I doubt it. But yeah I wish there were a lot more Classic Rock songs and lastest rock songs. I don’t really even know any of the bonus tracks. Hendrix would have kicked ass..Maybe some more RHCP. Some of the songs they chose by the groups were not the best choices.
Easily get mp3s of the original Rock Band Song List from Amazon. You can get ~25 songs using Pepsi Points!
http://rockband-songlist.com/
Easily get mp3s of the original Rock Band Song List from Amazon. You can get ~25 songs using Pepsi Points!
anytime you need to hit the cowbell you can just smack the microphone against your hand. i bought a mic stand and now all i have to do is smack the mic stand and that works alot better. for anyone who has been thinking about buying the game…go buy it. i was skeptical at first, now i have it and am fully addicted.
People are stupid they say “I wish Led Zeppelin was on it” but Zeppelin wont let any of the rhythm games or movies or tv shows us there songs…the only time you here it on something other then CD(tape or record) it is illegal…The only time it is not is in the School of rock because they asked every day for a year to use 10 seconds of a song…
… of course they don’t have two of the best bands from the 60s and 70s
Led Zepplin and The Zombies
The only decent band in that list for 70s music is The Ramones, and of course having Nirvana is a plus, you can’t have a music game without a band that is the biggest rip off of the Pixies EVER!!!
this is shit